Sentences with phrase «extensive studies which»

Insurance companies have done extensive studies which prove a direct correlation between low insurance credit scores and high claim activity.

We conducted a very extensive study which confirms similar conclusions from previous, smaller studies.»

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Based on the findings from its recent MONITOR MindBase study, which lasted from 1997 to 2000, Yankelovich Partners Inc. has compiled an extensive database of American consumer categories designed to help entrepreneurs analyze how their customers think and why they buy.

The study also found falling support for suicide bombings, as well as mixed attitudes towards Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic groups designated as terrorist organizations by Western governments but which operate extensive social services networks in parts of the Muslim world.

It took me on an extensive study, including the ancient Hebraic views of the matter which changed my understanding.

By this time I'd earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice, my focus in this degree was case law and judiciary process, which of course included an extensive study of policing histories and practices.

For seven years he took part in the work of the Congress, not without seeking relief from his diplomatic duties in extensive studies in the philosophy of language, which moved more and more to the center of his interests.

They are based on extensive studies of the complex processes by which the New Testament was produced.

They have conducted extensive clinical studies on the benefits of their exact collagen, which is superior to other collagen brands on the market due to their unique manufacturing process.

An extensive, year - long study at South Dakota State University (SDSU), shows that a diet enriched with Fibersym RW, which performs like a prebiotic fiber, can lower blood cholesterols and improve body composition.

Many people are also unaware of what compounds are available in coconut oil as no extensive studies have been conducted as in the case of olive oil which has been established as lowering the risk of coronary heart disease through the phenolic anti-oxidants it contains.

Studies have shown that difficult plans which include counting calories or extensive exercise programs simply don't work because people don't stay on them.

Once every two months, Elm City teachers lead students on a two - week «expeditionary» project in which they deeply study a single subject, sometimes involving extensive time outside school visiting a farm, museum, or historical site.

Wilmette village officials are expected to help the Park District sort out potential uses and developers for the building, which would need extensive renovations, according to a feasibility study.

Our division also directs the Pediatric Electroencephalography (EEG) Laboratory, which allows children to undergo routine outpatient diagnostic studies and extensive inpatient evaluations without leaving Floating Hospital.

Recently three new major studies funded by the Gates Foundation have been published, including a series in the Lancet, which delivered resounding and extensive evidence that breastfeeding saves lives, improves health and cuts health service costs in every country, rich or poor.

Yet there is a strong and deep academic literature, that draws on extensive interdisciplinary evidence from economics, political science, anthropology and history, which shows how simplistic and misguided such arguments about «resource wars» are, both when approached theoretically and through Asian or African case studies.

The consultation used the case study of Bonn city council, which has made extensive use of land pooling and typically has several pooling processes running concurrently.

The survey also revealed a wide range of graduate curricula: programs within astronomy, physics - astronomy, and physics departments; direct - entry Ph.D. programs, and programs which required, and valued, the MSc; programs with extensive and compulsory course requirements, and others which replace courses with minicourses, self - study courses, or extra research projects; programs in which coursework (if any) was purely astronomy, and others which included physics or other subjects; programs with comprehensive exams, and others without or with an exam which was basically a defence of the Ph.D. proposal.

Despite this, the extensive breadth of the new study allowed the researchers to identify several genetic markers underlying the fruit size increases, which is great news for breeders who might want to further increase the apple's girth.

Such is the case with an extensive new study of ancient horse DNA, which largely disproves the current theory: that modern horses arose more than 5000 years ago in Kazakhstan.

According to a new study published in the Journal of Hepatology, researchers found that drinking coffee and herbal tea may protect against liver fibrosis, estimated as the degree of liver stiffness, which is high in extensive scarring of the liver.

Extensive studies have found that 20 % to 30 % of breast cancers are characterized by over-expression of HER2, which makes the cancer cells grow and divide faster, leading to a cancer that's more aggressive and more likely to be resistant to the standard of care.

One thing that inhibits research into Ebola is the safety precautions needed; the virus can only be studied in biosafety level 4 (BSL - 4) labs, which are rare and in high demand, and working with the virus in these labs requires extensive safety training.

The Grants had shown that gene flow has occurred in the finches of Daphne Major during the past 40 years, but the new study found extensive evidence for gene flow throughout the roughly 1 million years that the birds have occupied the archipelago, which has helped the researchers update their understanding of how the lineages diverged over time.

The study constituted part of the extensive, population - based DR's EXTRA study, which was a four - year randomised and controlled intervention study analysing the effects of exercise and nutrition on endothelial function, atherosclerosis and cognition.

«Previous studies have given us a broad set of benchmarks, including the sequence of the entire genome, which makes Candida albicans a great subject for study in microgravity because we have extensive information to compare it to.»

A new study shows that cichlid fish reared in larger social groups from birth display a greater and more extensive range of social interactions, which continues into the later life of the fish.

«Alcoholic liver disease is a spectrum of conditions that range from hepatic steatosis, which is fat deposition in the liver and it is reversible with sobriety, to alcoholic hepatitis which is a more severe condition characterized by extensive and severe inflammation in the liver and often requires hospitalization,» explained Valentina Medici, associate professor of internal medicine at UC Davis Health System as well as corresponding author for the study.

«Traditionally, there haven't been so many older female players in English, Faroese or Danish soccer clubs, but the relatively new Danish initiative of soccer Fitness has really caught on with women,» says sports sociologist Laila Ottesen, currently engaged in an extensive study of the soccer Fitness concept, which was started in 2011 by the Danish soccer Association and the Danish Sports Confederation.

Although the research evidence on this front is less extensive, most studies indicate that EMDR produces more improvement than control conditions in which therapists merely listen attentively to a client's problems but do not attempt to intervene directly.

The study was carried out at 60 different sites of alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau in China which was chosen for its extensive variation in climate across sites.

In a study to be published online February 2 in Nature Communications, scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai describe an extensive analysis of novel grape - derived compounds, dihydrocaffeic acid (DHCA) and malvidin - 3» - O - glucoside (Mal - gluc), which might be developed as therapeutic agents for the treatment of depression.

Working from an extensive Eurasian fossil record going back some 2.6 million years, Adrian Lister of University College London and Andrei V. Sher of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow studied changes in the skulls and teeth of three successive mammoth species (the last of which was the woolly variety) over time.

According to the study an explanation is «genome obesity» caused by extensive repetitive DNA sequences, which have accumulated for several hundred million years of evolutionary history.

Throughout the course of this study, the teams compiled an extensive library of experimental and theoretical data including electronic, magnetic, optical, photoelectrochemical, and structural properties, which are now used as feedstock in material genome work and near - term development of superior PEC materials through materials - by - design techniques.

As a result of such extensive sea ice melt, says the study, the jet stream, which has always been rather capricious, is behaving differently now.

Distinctions between synthetic and natural vitamin A have been absent in the extensive media coverage of this study — on the contrary, the newspaper reports contain implied warnings against pregnant women eating liver, dairy products, meat and eggs, but none against eating fabricated foods like margarine and breakfast cereals to which synthetic vitamin A is added — and one is moved to ask if there might be a hidden agenda in bringing these results before the public.

On their native diet they are free of disease and exceptionally hardy.17 An extensive study of diet and disease patterns in China found that the region in which the populace consumes large amounts of whole milk had half the rate of heart disease as several districts in which only small amounts of animal products are consumed.18 Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric intake.

Basically, this current extensive study review is more of a «white paper,» which is a persuasive essay using facts and logic to promote the need for more detailed, alternative medical research, as explained in its conclusion.

I studied an Arts Degree with drama and screen as my majors, so I have an extensive knowledge of theatre and film history which never comes in handy.

My colleagues and I have carried out extensive studies of the effect of uniforms in England which, as you will know, has had a tradition of school uniforms going back to the very earliest days of the introduction of schooling.

And the College Board's leader, David Coleman, coauthored Common Core, which expects students to develop «extensive vocabularies, built through reading and study.»

The study, released Wednesday by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which has conducted extensive research on charters across the nation, also concludes that significant improvements in charter school performance over time is rare among middle and high schools, though it occurs more often in elementary schools.

A little over a year ago, the Friedman Foundation released the results of study, the most extensive ever done, which stated,

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

«I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electronics Engineering which included extensive study in differential equations and other high - math applications,» he wrote.

Since its founding in 1973, IDRA has conducted extensive research and analysis on Texas school finance, including cost studies, which have been used to help inform policymakers for the past five decades.

Collaborative Common Assessments is a fairly easy read, and one in which readers can relate and act on without additional extensive research or study.

Stress, poverty, access to food, access to quiet places to study, lack of access to extra curricular and costly sports and arts activities and crucially lack of access to the extensive and expensive army of private tutors that middle class families employ and which reflect so well on the schools who then reap the benefits of GCSE results.